# Zeno Partners

> Zeno Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 71 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 71
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last fund: Nov 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zeno-ventures/about/
- Website: http://zenoventures.com/

Zeno Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$2.3M |
| Series A | $3.4M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 28% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 15% |
| SaaS | 8 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 11% |
| FinTech | 6 | 8% |

125 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 44% |
| Series A | 16 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 10% |
| Series B | 5 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 43 | 61% |
| Canada | 3 | 4% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Kile | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-kile-2 |
| Duarte Moreira | Co-Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duarte-moreira |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beglaubigt.de | Legaltech startup from Germany https://beglaubigt.de | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Trace | Trace is an orchestration engine that breaks down existing workflows, assigns repetitive tasks to AI agents and routes the rest to the right people. | $3M | Seed | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Eloquent AI | Eloquent AI is the first AI Operator built specifically for financial services to automate complex, regulated customer service operations beyond frontline support. Our AI Operator learns to securely navigate your existing systems simply by observing your standard operating procedures—automating up to 96% of tasks without any engineering effort. | $8.4M | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| DejaBlue | DejaBlue provides an energy optimization platform helping commercial buildings and fleets cut energy costs and streamline EV charging through intelligent software, infrastructure management, and solar optimization. Founded by Parker Spielman and Baptiste Richard, the Paris-based team brings deep experience in energy, mobility, and real-time systemsto build the operating layer that gives businesses fine-grained control over their energy. | $8M | Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Spaceium | Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions. Its docking mechanism aims to offer solutions in the fields of In-space refueling with sustainable fueling stations can be an essential part of space exploration. The company's service hubs efficiently store and transfer cryogenic (extremely cold) andnon-cryogenic fuels with zero loss during storage and transfer. | $6.3M | Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Baton Market | The team at Baton is building a marketplace to enable SMB acquisitions with tools to help business owners unlock liquidity and let buyers access this gigantic, fragmented asset class. They are angling to be the Zillow of SMB acquisitions. | $10M | Series A | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| Atmanity | Brining AI to life. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 25, 2024 |  |
| Granza Bio | Granza Bio is a company that developing cancer therapies based on human body's immune system. | $7.1M | Seed | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| Pythagora | Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code | $4M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Pump | Pump provides cloud cost optimization by pooling commitments across companies, enabling startups to access discounted rates on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other cloud providers without long-term contracts. It reallocates unused resources, applies savings automatically, and operates with limited billing permissions, without access to code or data. | $4M | Seed | Apr 05, 2024 |  |

10 of 71 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Zeno Partners invest in?

Zeno Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Zeno Partners's check size?

Zeno Partners typically joins rounds of $150k–$8M at Seed, $1.1M–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $3.4M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Zeno Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Zeno Partners?

Public channels for Zeno Partners include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Zeno Partners?

The team at Zeno Partners includes Christopher Kile (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Duarte Moreira (Co-Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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